NEWSLETTER OF THE BALTIMORE SECTION OF THE IEEE
JANUARY 2004
The web site for the Baltimore section of the IEEE is:
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore
IN THIS ISSUE:
4. Centennial Celebration and
Banquet
6. 2003 Engineers' Week
Dinner
7. Power
Engineering Society/Industrial Applications Society Book Scholarship Award
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1. 
Note From Jeff.
I wish everyone a Happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. This is a momentous year for the Baltimore Section of the IEEE. It is our Centennial year; the section was founded in 1904. A gala celebration is planned for February 28th at the BWI Marriott. A dinner is planned and this is an event that you should not miss. We look forward to seeing you at this celebration.
I would like to personally thank the officers of the section and chapters who have served in leadership capacities this past year. We have added a very active GOLD chapter. This chapter is for our younger members and provides a non- technical forum to network with other young engineers.
Welcome to the incoming officers for 2004. I look forward to working with them to make this another active and outstanding year.
I would like to hear from you, the members, on what activities would bring you to meetings. Typically we have 10-25 people at chapter meetings out of a total membership in the Baltimore area of over 4,000. What do we need to get you to attend a meeting?
I would like to encourage you to actively participate as a volunteer in the activities of the section. Specifically we need:
A liaison with the student chapters.
Support in the Robot Challenge for pre-college students.
Industrial relations.
We cannot pay you, but we feed the volunteers. It is critical to identify future leaders of the section and chapters to replace those who are currently serving, a number of us have been on the boards for years and we need new ideas.
Finally I would like to encourage you to apply for senior membership. The section would be glad to sponsor you and find senior members for recommendations. All you need is an up to date resume. It is really easy to apply online.
Please feel free to contact me, jafried@ieee.org, 410-997-5366
2. New Senior Members.
Congratulations to 26 Baltrimore Section Members Elevated to Senior Member Level in 2003
by Vil Arafiles, Chair, Membership Development
Our congratulations to the all who were elevated to Senior Member level in 2003:
Ahmed Kamal
Anupam Joshi
David W. Young
Deane R. Charlson
Gert Cauwenberghs
Hampapuram Ramapriyan
Hatem H. Abdelkader
Hillol Kargupta
Howard Abdur Rahman
James F. Ryan
Jesus (Nano) Sierra
Joseph C. McGowan
Joseph G. Bunch
Karl F. Schoch, Jr.
Kirk A. Rae
Michael A. Zagami
Michael L. Dennis
Patrick K. Harris
Paul A. Potyraj
Philip C. Hack
Ren Hong Wang
Robert A. Banas
Robert D. Biagiotti
Robert W. Ives
Ronald J. Aloysius
Shahbaz Raza
This is a significant accomplishment as less than 10% of IEEE members become Senior Members. Members with 10 years of experience in approved IEEE fields are eligible and can be elevated with the recommendation of three or more senior members or fellows. The section participates in the IEEE Senior Member Nomination program to help eligible members and will help find references.
We encourage eligible members to attend the first half hour of our monthly section meetings to introduce themselves and submit a copy of their resume.
We are also asking our senior members and fellows to help in reviewing resumes and becoming references. Please contact Vil Arafiles (vparafiles@ieee.org) if you are willing to become a SM reference or want to apply for SM elevation.
3. New Officers.
The following are the Baltimore Section members elected to office for 2004. All were elected December 1, 2003.
Position Member
Chair Jeffrey Friedhoffer
Vice Chair H. Brian Sequera
Secretary Boris Gramatikov
Treasurer Roberto Cuellar
Continuing Education John Dentler
Programs Chris Nemarich
Awards and Recognition Thomas Patton
Student Activities Neville Jacobs
Audits and By Laws Joseph Pollitt
Professional Activities 1 Carole Carey
Professional Activities 2 Hoosamuddin Bandukwala
Membership Development Vil Arafiles
This year, we had three times more ballots submitted because of email and fax availability. Thanks to everyone who submitted a ballot. As IEEE members, it is important that we all stay active.
4. Centennial Celebration and Banquet
The Baltimore Section will host a Centennial Celebration and Banquet on Saturday February 28, 2004 at the Marriott Hotel on Nursery Rd adjacent to the Historical Electronic Museum. Cocktail hour will be from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m with dinner and speaker to follow. Tickets will be $30 each. For more information please contact Christopher Nemarich, Section Program Director at c.nemarich@ieee.org
5. IAS Monthly Dinner Meeting
IAS will hold its Monthly Dinner Meeting on Wednesday, January 21 at the Overlea Caterers, 6809 Belair Road, Baltimore (approximately 2 miles inside the Baltimore Beltway). The open bar begins at 6PM, buffet dinner served at 7PM and the program begins at 8PM after a short business meeting. Cost is $25 members/$30 non-members paid in advance and $30 members/$35 non-members at the door. Reservations can be mailed to:
Leonard Bathgate
9 First Avenue West
Glen Burnie, MD 21061
or fax to 410-768-6859.
The January speaker will be Ms. Julie Gaver. IAS tries to have one non-technical presentation each season to help clear the differential equations out of our heads. Ms. Gaver is a professional speaker and trainer who has spoken to our group before. Her topic will be "The HERO in You". It is guaranteed to be inspirational, motivational and very entertaining. This will be a good meeting for members to bring their spouses to remind them that we engineers are not all dunderheads and that we really do know how to laugh.
6. 2003 Engineers' Week Dinner
The 2003 Engineers' Week Dinner was held on Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at the BWI Marriott Hotel. This annual dinner, jointly sponsored by IEEE Baltimore Section and IEEE-PES Baltimore Chapter, provides an opportunity for Baltimore area high school students considering studying engineering to meet with local IEEE members and discuss engineering careers. This year's dinner had to be rescheduled from the original February 19 date, due to the 2 feet of snow that Baltimore received earlier that week.
Approximately 80 people attended the rescheduled dinner, including over 60 students from high schools throughout the metropolitan area. Prior to dinner, the students reviewed exhibits on the Robot Challenge from Neville Jacobs, and on Utility Distribution Automation from Bill McCracken. The guest speaker for the evening was Dr. Allison Okamura, an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Okamura discussed the development of haptic technology, including the design and control of robotic fingers for haptic exploration, reality-based modelling, haptic displays for surgical procedure assistance and simulation, and haptics in education.
The Baltimore Chapter of IEEE-PES also presented its Outstanding Engineer Award for 2002 to John Matthews of BGE. Mr. Matthews has over 30 years experience in Substation Engineering, System Operations, and Electric Testing positions at BGE, and has served on the IEEE-PES Transformers Committee for 25 years, including service as Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary of the Committee.
7. Power Engineering Society/Industrial Applications Society Book Scholarship Award
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer's (IEEE) Baltimore Power Engineering Society (PES) and Industrial Applications Society (IAS) jointly sponsor a number of book scholarships for high school seniors entering college each academic year. Each scholarship is a $500 per year award and is intended to help defray the cost of students’ books while pursuing an Electrical, Electronic or Computer Engineering degree. The IEEE is the world's largest engineering society with over 300,000 members. It is dedicated to improving the understanding and application of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering.
The criteria for the scholarship award are:
· The student must be a High School Senior for the current school year.
· The student must be accepted to a college or university with an accredited Electrical Engineering undergraduate program for the upcoming school year.
· The student must enroll in and pursue a degree in Electrical, Electronic or Computer Engineering.
· The scholarship recipient must provide proof of registration on an annual basis to continue to receive the scholarship.
· The scholarship recipient must join an IEEE Student Chapter.
8. Help For The Unemployed.
The following was sent in by Linda Perry (lcplinda@ieee.org) on December 4, 2003.
“The IEEE virtual community (VC) called Employment and Career Strategies (ecs) https://www.ieeecommunities.org/ecs has relevant discussions. There I started a folder where people can post positions of which they know, in subfolders they create by job type, as well as any job boards they have found helpful. (Later someone started an employment folder). If you know of jobs going, please be kind enough to post them there. I understand that unemployed members have been invited to join this forum.
The Computer Society posts resumes directly:
http://www.computer.org/careers/resume/all_resumes.htm
Spectrum advertises one free listing for members at the IEEE jobsite:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jobsite/hrmanagerform/
not revealed at
You must first establish a web account
to log in.
Begin by doing your homework on who you are and what jobs at what firms would suit you. The key to finding a job is still meeting people face to face. Talk to everybody you meet. And get out and meet people. If they think you useful, they will invite you to other meetings, I have found.
Network:
http://www.netpreneur.org/calendar/calendar.cfm
http://www.gbtechcouncil.org/calendar/ViewCalendar.asp
http://www.mdhitech.org/Networks/atnetwork.html
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/f_sci.html
Think of your alumni/ae association, church, hobbies. Volunteer.
Research Companies:
http://wsjie.ar.wilink.com/asp/WSJ3_search_eng.asp
http://www.jobsniper.com/php/resources.php?c=0cc22a&topic=research
http://www.quintcareers.com/researching_companies.html
Use lists and directories:
http://www.engineeringjobs.com/
Go to engineering organizations:
http://www.pratt.lib.md.us/slrc/job/empdir.html
http://www.dllr.state.md.us/lmi/topprivateeployers12002.htm
http://info.asaenet.org/gateway/OnlineAssocSlist.html
http://www.dllr.state.md.us/poac/metalist/index.html
Go to career fairs:
http://www.intelligencecareers.com/careerfairs/index_events_tj.cfm
http://www.employmentguide.com
http://www.job-hunt.org/fairs.shtml
The governnent is hiring:
http://www.federaljobsearch.com
Read local business newspapers at the library; and, online, there are
Use local job listing websites:
http://www.montgomeryworks.com/E/00016/index.cfm?M=16
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org
http://www.jobfactory.com/s/f_md1.htm
rather than national ones:
Collect URLs and classify them by what you found most useful.
Here is somebody else who thinks information is for sharing:
http://www.myschoolonline.com/page/0,1871,51741-148928-53-40850,00.html
Keep contacting people, calling them back, and most of all, take a genuine interest in them. If socially handicapped, P&G's careers website has a class (free) on how to network. Keep reading and stay current. If you can afford it, go to conferences in your field; the IEEE is not discounting those for the unemployed, but others, like osa.org, may give you a student rate.”
Thanks, Linda, for submitting this. These are tough times now, even for engineers. Jeff asked me to inform everyone that the Baltimore Section will also post resumes on their website.
9. Robot Challenge.
There has been interest in promoting the robot challenge at the national level. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available.
